Chilliwack RCMP said they initiated their "thorough" investigation as a result of a complaint received from a school administrator.

The police investigation revealed that local youths and young adult males were using the Internet and portraying themselves as a 15-year-old girl to talk to adult males in an attempt to lure them for the purposes of having sex.

Last November, police said the vigilantes -- two are 17, one is 18, and one is 20 -- put themselves in danger by posing online as underage girls to lure men for sexual encounters, only to confront the men publicly dressed as Batman and the Flash. The encounters were videotaped and posted on YouTube, under the title To Troll a Predator.

"I want to emphasize that the RCMP discourages this type of activity," RCMP Cpl. Tammy Hollingsworth of the Upper Fraser Valley RCMP said Friday.

"We understand that the males involved had good intentions, but it can be challenging even for trained police officers to properly gather evidence in such a way that suspects can be charged," said Hollingswoth. "And significantly, the males put themselves and other members of the public at risk by engaging in this type of activity, and that is never a good thing."

The RCMP said it does not anticipate any further charges in this matter.

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